Fruit of The Spirit!

This one will be short and sweet! You reap what you sew! If you never focus on the money you will always be forever rich!

Book of Galatians

Life by the Spirit
 ¹³ You, my brothers and sisters, were called to be free. But do not use your freedom to indulge the flesh^[a]; rather, serve one another humbly in love. ¹⁴ For the entire law is fulfilled in keeping this one command: “Love your neighbor as yourself.”^{[b] 15} If you bite and devour each other, watch out or you will be destroyed by each other.  ¹⁶ So I say, walk by the Spirit, and you will not gratify the desires of the flesh. ¹⁷ For the flesh desires what is contrary to the Spirit, and the Spirit what is contrary to the flesh. They are in conflict with each other, so that you are not to do whatever^[c] you want. ¹⁸ But if you are led by the Spirit, you are not under the law.
 ¹⁹ The acts of the flesh are obvious: sexual immorality, impurity and debauchery; ²⁰ idolatry and witchcraft; hatred, discord, jealousy, fits of rage, selfish ambition, dissensions, factions ²¹ and envy; drunkenness, orgies, and the like. I warn you, as I did before, that those who live like this will not inherit the kingdom of God.
 ²² But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, forbearance, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, ²³ gentleness and self-control. Against such things there is no law. ²⁴ Those who belong to Christ Jesus have crucified the flesh with its passions and desires. ²⁵ Since we live by the Spirit, let us keep in step with the Spirit. ²⁶ Let us not become conceited, provoking and envying each other.


Thank you Unlcle Dad!

ONE DAY AT A TIME!

Well I have said it, but I don't think I followed it for myself. ROME WAS NOT BUILT IN ONE DAY. This has to be something that I really do understand but still fall back into! I need some feed back on this one. How much sacrifice does one have to commit to see progress in their projects. Maybe that question is reaching to far into the left field to ever get an answer that will suit me!  Let me ask this, is it wrong to want to do better, have a different lifestyle that doesn't reflect what your regular circumstances have been?  Is happiness important or overrated, im asking this because if it is important why don't the unhappy people change. I have a friend and I don't think he'll mind me mentioning his name as a matter of fact I'll keep him anonymous. Most of you know him he is a well known poet, i'll say that! We were having breakfast while conversing about life. In the midst of my comedic fest I noticed that he wasn't perceptive to my funnies and I was like wtf is going on here! But then I seriously started to tune into his emotional state this brotha was a wreck! I asked what was wrong, he replied everything. Whoa, he went into a spill that had to be like 2 hrs in a nut shell no happiness to be found in his world anywhere! How in the hell do we avoid that place.....Im sure as hell not going there anytime soon but have sympathy  for him and those who reside in that place regularly.  Do some of us like the attention that comes with this type of emotion, the what's wrong's, are u okay, can I help you, give me a hug. Am I an asshole for bringing that into play. Im not real needy so I don't know that's why im asking? My reasoning for bringing him into this blog is that he couldn't see his blessings for his own self torment or that he is a blessing.  His happiness was right there everyday he just needed to change his mind state and  get off that auto pilot misery im a poet in pain shit. Okay that bothered me because if that's the end results of living out your dreams then damn it we don't have much to look forward too! Ahhhhhhh revelation, number 1, (side bar, thank you holy spirit)  there is a such thing as trying to do to much in one day. Pace yourself friends.  There is a lot to be done on your journey and it can be enjoyed to the fullest if you take it one day at a time.

  Paul Laurence Dunbar (1872-1906)                             Sympathy
    I KNOW what the caged bird feels, alas!
        When the sun is bright on the upland slopes;
    When the wind stirs soft through the springing grass,
    And the river flows like a stream of glass;
        When the first bird sings and the first bud opes,
    And the faint perfume from its chalice steals —
    I know what the caged bird feels!
    I know why the caged bird beats his wing
        Till its blood is red on the cruel bars;
    For he must fly back to his perch and cling
    When he fain would be on the bough a-swing;
        And a pain still throbs in the old, old scars
    And they pulse again with a keener sting —
    I know why he beats his wing!
    I know why the caged bird sings, ah me,
        When his wing is bruised and his bosom sore,—
    When he beats his bars and he would be free;
    It is not a carol of joy or glee,
        But a prayer that he sends from his heart's deep core,
    But a plea, that upward to Heaven he flings —
    I know why the caged bird sings!

Does this get any easier?

Im not complaining, I promise im not! Being a self proclaimed mogul is tough! Where in the hell is your support staff? Uh, hello Cleo that takes money!  Where are the graphic teams, the customer service staff? Uh, money! Oh yes that thing, the mighty dollar!  The dollar is held tighter than leather gloves in people's hand this day, but why does it seem to slide out of my hand like sand? This blog I am apologizing  in advance because this bad boy is going to become a rant, I can see that already. So get in, buckle up and just take the damn ride already.  Many sleepless nights and I do mean many come along with the want to do better! I want to do better, I want to live better, I want to eat better, travel better, look better! I don't how ever want to freakin struggle as I attempt to do better! Some of you might say "well without struggle there's no progress" funk that, I know struggle like no bodies business and I am declaring victory over struggling........ The time is here to reap the benefits of sacrifice and struggle. Am I wrong to declare this? I REFUSE TO GO BACK!  I say this in the morning, before I go to bed, brushing my teeth, while im working, while im creating. Have you ever felt in your life that there were some things you were just never going to do again. I have several. Live in Sacramento, date a man with locs, wear plastic shoes (except for my plastic chanel flats, I mean come on there hell of fly) eat fast food (lord help me with this one) compromise my feelings for the sake of having a man, fly Delta airlines, pretend to like the sex when in fact I want to throw up, pretend to like your mother, pretend to like your father, pretend to like your sister, ride in a ford focus, ride in a ford focus in the summertime in Sacramento, wear fur boots, bite my tongue when having a heart to heart with a friend.  Those are just some of the things I will never go back too!  Just for the record I never purchased a ford focus, why did they make this car (lord I am grateful).When I do a job, what ever it is and y'all know that I have a lot of jobs ( got to use all my gifts so that I don't eva eva eva eva eva eva have to go back to Sacramento ).  So why is it that people always want to do you wrong.  If someone does a job for you and they finish it even if it is done poorly you must pay them, you just don't use them again. Do your research, your bad, sorry!  Back to does this get any easier, well let's see! It's 3 am in the morning and I can hear someone hauling stuff from there back yard, sounds like work to me. Did it get easier for them, apparently not. Leaving you with a few qoutes.

Don’t wish it were easier, wish you were better. Don’t wish for fewer problems, wish for more skills. Don’t wish for less challenges, wish for more wisdom.
Earl Shoaf

"Every now and then, when the world sits just right, a gentle breath of heaven fills my soul with delight..." Hazelmarie ‘Mattie’ Elliott